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Georgi
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How to set a static IP to a cluster

Is there a way to set a static IP to a cluster on the Databricks instance? I'm trying to establish connection with a service outside AWS and it seems the only way to allow inbound connections is by adding the IP to a set of rules. thanks!I couldn’t f...

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Takuya-Omi
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Hi, @Georgi Databricks clusters on AWS don’t have a built‐in way to assign a static IP address. Instead, the typical workaround is to route all outbound traffic from your clusters through a NAT Gateway (or similar solution) that has an Elastic IP ass...

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mzs
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Resolved! Understanding Azure frontend private link endpoints

Hi,I've been reading up on private link (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/databricks/security/network/classic/private-link) and have some questions:In the standard deployment, do the transit VNet (frontend private endpoint) and Databricks work...

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Zubisid
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Below are the answers to your questions -1) No, they don’t have to be in the same subscription. You can have the transit VNet (with the front-end Private Endpoint) in one subscription and the Databricks workspace in another, as long as you set up the...

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mzs
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Using a proxy server to install packages from PyPI in Azure Databricks

Hi,I'm setting up a workspace in Azure and would like to put some restrictions in place on outbound Internet access to reduce the risk of data exfiltration from notebooks and jobs. I plan to use VNet Injection and SCC + back-end private link for comp...

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mzs
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Thanks Isi, this is great info. I'll update once I've tried it.

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meshko
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help undersanding RAM utilization graph

I am trying to understand the following graph databricks is showing me and failing:What is that constant lightly shaded area close to 138GB? It is not explained in the "Usage type" legend. The job is running completely on the driver node, not utilizi...

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koji_kawamura
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Hi @meshko  The light-shaded area represents the total available RAM size. The tooltip shows it when you hover over a mouse.    

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dofrey
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Create account group with terraform without account admin permissions

I’m trying to create an account-level group in Databricks using Terraform. When creating a group via the UI, it automatically becomes an account-level group that can be reused across workspaces. However, I’m struggling to achieve the same using Terra...

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fazetu01
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I am also interested in the solution for this! Workspace-level groups cannot be used to grant permissions on Unity Catalog resources so I also need to be able to create account-level groups in terraform while not being an account admin.

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200842
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Resolved! How can i run a single task in job from Rest API

How can I run a single task in a job that has many tasks?I can do it in the UI, but I can’t find a way to do it using the REST API. Does anyone know how to accomplish this?

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themattmorris
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It looks like this may be a possibility now? I haven't actually tried it, but I noticed a parameter named "only" has been added to the Databricks SDK for when running a job. Here is the commit that made the change: [Release] Release v0.38.0 (#826) · ...

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jeffreym9
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Databricks Managed MLFlow with Different Unity Catalog for Multi-tenant Production Tracing

Is the Databricks Managed MLFlow only trace LLM traffic through Serving Endpoint? Does it support manual tracing in my LLM application with decorator @mlflow.trace ?Also, How can Databricks Managed MLFlow support multi-tenant cases where traces need ...

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Mr_7199
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Assigning Dedicated (SINGLE_USER) ML Clusters to a Group in Databricks

I'm working with Databricks Runtime ML and have configured a cluster in Dedicated access mode (formerly SINGLE_USER). The documentation indicates that a compute resource with Dedicated access can be assigned to a group, allowing user permissions to a...

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Isi
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Hey @Mr_7199 Yes, I’ve successfully configured a dedicated ML cluster assigned to a group.Here are three things to check:1.Cluster Policy – Ensure the cluster policy does not impose restrictions. Using an unrestricted policy simplifies testing.2.Perm...

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noorbasha534
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Disable usage of serverless jobs & serverless all-purpose clusters usage

Dear all,I see some developers started using serverless jobs and serverless all-purpose clusters. as a platform admin, I like to disable them as we are not yet prepared as a team to move to serverless; we get huge discounts on compute from Microsoft ...

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ashraf1395
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You can disable the serverless compute featuure from your account console :https://docs.databricks.com/aws/en/admin/workspace-settings/serverless#enable-serverless-computeI have heard that for some ,If this option is not available , it means it is au...

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bhanu_dp
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How to restore if a catalog is deleted

I am looking to identify potential pitfall in the decentralized workspace framework where the key business owner have full access to their respective workspace and catalogs. In case of accidental delete/drop schema or catalog from the UC, what are th...

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KaranamS
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Hi @bhanu_dp , To retrieve accidental deletes, you can -1. Restore it to a previous version using time travel featurehttps://docs.databricks.com/gcp/en/delta/history#restore-a-delta-table-to-an-earlier-state2. Use UNDROP commandhttps://docs.databrick...

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pranav_
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How to Query All the users who have access to a databricks workspace?

Hi There,I'm new to Databricks and we currently have a lot of users among different groups having access to a databricks workspace. I would like to know how I could query the users, groups and Entitlements of each groups using SQL or the API. Incase ...

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tejaskelkar
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To query all users who have access to a Databricks workspace, you can follow these steps:1. Check Workspace Users via Admin ConsoleIf you are a workspace admin, navigate to the Admin Console in the Databricks UI. Under the "Users" tab, you can view a...

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borft
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Databricks on GCP admin console access

Hi,I'm trying to update the GCP permissions for Databricks as described here: https://docs.databricks.com/gcp/en/admin/cloud-configurations/gcp/gce-updateTo be able to do that, I have to log in to the account console here: https://accounts.gcp.databr...

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SANJAYKJ
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Spark Executor - Parallelism Question

I was reading the book Spark: The Definitive Guide, I came across below statement in Chapter 2 on partitions."If you have many partitions but only one executor, Spark will still have a parallelism of only one because there is only one computation res...

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Isi
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Hey @SANJAYKJ It is correct in the sense that a single executor is a limiting factor, but the actual parallelism within that executor depends on the number of cores assigned to it. If you want to leverage multiple partitions effectively, you either n...

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mrstevegross
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Resolved! Possible to programmatically adjust Databricks instance pool more intelligently?

We'd like to adopt Databricks instance pool in order to reduce instance-acquisition times (a significant contributor to our test latency). Based on my understanding of the docs, the main levers we can control are: min instance count, max instance cou...

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Isi
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Hi Steve,If the goal is to pre-warm 100 instances in the Databricks Instance Pool, you could create a temporary job that will request instances from the pool. This ensures that Databricks provisions the required instances before the actual test run.T...

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ErikApption
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Notebook runs not found due to retention limits with dbutils.notebook.run

We saw this odd error in an AWS deployment, we have one notebook calling another one through dbutils.notebook.run(...) and this suddenly stopped working and failed with "Notebook runs not found due to retention limits", the "learn more" points to Dat...

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Isi
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Hey @ErikApption ,Maybe I am wrong but I will give you my opinion.Each time you execute dbutils.notebook.run(), it launches a new and independent execution within the same cluster. So, if you run the cell today and then run it again tomorrow, there s...

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